2017 Division I Pre-Season Poll

By IWLCA Admin, 01/30/17, 1:00PM EST

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January 30, 2017

2017 IWLCA Division I Pre-Season Poll – January 30, 2017

After capturing the 2016 NCAA Championship, the University of North Carolina debuts at the top of the IWLCA Division I Coaches Pre-Season Poll, claiming 18 of the 20 available first place votes. The Tar Heels beat out Maryland for the top spot, and that duo is followed by Florida, Southern California and Syracuse in the top five. North Carolina and Florida have an early clash scheduled for February 11, while Syracuse opens with #17 Boston College the same day, and Southern California tangles with Northwestern (#9) on February 18. The ACC again looks like the toughest conference in the country with seven of their eight members landing in the pre-season top 20.

Rank

Institution

Points

FPV

Record

1

North Carolina

398

18

0-0

2

Maryland

379

2

0-0

3

Florida

341

0

0-0

4

Southern California

326

0

0-0

5

Syracuse

321

0

0-0

6

Stony Brook

295

0

0-0

7

Penn State

286

0

0-0

8

Notre Dame

260

0

0-0

9

Northwestern

235

0

0-0

10

Duke

201

0

0-0

11

Penn

190

0

0-0

12

Stanford

176

0

0-0

13

Princeton

136

0

0-0

14

Virginia

126

0

0-0

15

Cornell

109

0

0-0

16

Massachusetts

101

0

0-0

17

Boston College

76

0

0-0

18

Louisville

70

0

0-0

19

Towson

67

0

0-0

20

Johns Hopkins

65

0

0-0

RV

Loyola (MD)

0-0

The first regular season poll for the 2017 season will be published on February 20.